Accounts & Deeds -- Artist Books by Maureen Cummins (page 2)

Told from the perspective of a Takelma Indian, the text is an imagined memoir based on documented history -- a bitter recounting of how a succession of deeds on the part of soldiers, statesmen, and settlers forced native tribes off their land ...

(1999) Published as a paired set, Accounts and Deeds were inspired by two sets of record books that were altered by the artist -- unbound, overprinted, then rebound. In both cases, the physical layering of text creates a visual surface that is lively and intricate but often illegible, corresponding to the obscured and contradictory nature of history...